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• dougsmith Likes this wine: 90 points

  April 3, 2018 - Deep ruby color. Nose of dark chocolate, mountain herbs, and dark fruit. Medium bodied on the palate with ripe tannins on the finish.

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• Mlermontov wrote: 91 points

  March 12, 2016 - Crazy Bash - Who Starts with Riesling and ends with Scotch?!!: beautiful black (i think Michael said "squid ink") color. Black fruit. ripe, chewy textures. pepper, touch of oak comes through. good spicy finish. tastes quite young. good acidity, mid tends toward plum and black currants. i enjoyed this a lot. Fun memories too - for this "first of its kind" - having had it from barrel.

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• Jay Hack wrote: 91 points

  August 12, 2012 - First - the story. we were at Paumanok in August of 2006 and Charles Massoud took hours out of his work day to give me, my wife and my cousin the grand tour. We started in the vineyard with Charles bending over to pick up a hand ful of soil to show us the similarities with some of the soil in Graves and we ended with the machine that affixed the labels, missing nothing in between. We then tasted the 2005 vintage from barrels and thought the Petit Verdot barrel was fantastic. My wife asked about bottling it by itself and Charles said that would not happen because it was needed for his Assemblage Bordeaux blend. We insisted and he refused. Oh well. A week later, Count Mikhail Lermontov (his alias) went to Paumanok, tasted the same barrel, and also begged for a separate bottling. Charles probably thought it was a conspiracy but, if truth be told. we did not find out what The Count had done until a few weeks later. Charles relented, and we bought a case of it. My recollection of that tasting was a very fruit forward wine with a lot of spice. It is not as fruity, but the spice is all there, giving this wine a great palate that grabs you and makes you want more. Dark pepper that you could easily confuse with the spice of a mature syrah. Perhaps a little more on the smoked black pepper side than the smooth white pepper. The fruit, which is now a secondary flavor component, is dark red and black fruit like plum with a bit of cherry. There is "chewyness" to the palate that gives the wine body and reflects a bit of maybe chocolate or some flavor way in the background from the oak barrels we saw. Somewhere I have a photo of the barrel this comes from. I recall it is a very fine grain Tarransaud barrel with the letters MTTH on it, for medium toast, toasted head. This was an excellent accompaniment to grilled baby back ribs.

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• Mlermontov wrote:

  July 4, 2006 - Paumanok visit (LI): OMG!
  if this does indeed get bottles as a varietal i will HAVE TO get some...
  first notes - BDX - most closely reminded me of a bottle of Lynch Bages 2000... amazing wine-to-be...

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• Vintage 2005
• Type Red
• Producer Paumanok
• Varietal Petit Verdot
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region New York
• SubRegion Long Island
• Appellation North Fork

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